Use QGIS to turn a site boundary and scattered context data into evidence an architect can design with: aligned base layers, terrain, access, constraints, suitability, CAD-ready linework, and a clear site-analysis map set.
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What you will be able to answer
You receive a site boundary, a scanned survey, and a brief asking where development should and should not go. What evidence can you produce before concept design begins?
A coordinate-checked GIS project and map set showing the site in context, terrain, access, environmental and regulatory constraints, and a transparent opportunity or suitability result. The package includes its data sources and assumptions, plus clean linework exported for the architectural drawing workflow, so the first design move can be traced back to site evidence rather than a decorative base map.
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Course outline
Concept 1
Concept 1 · Open a site project and read its GIS layers
Concept 2
After: site-layers-orientation
A site analysis is unusable when the survey, roads and terrain occupy different coordinate worlds, even if each layer looks plausible on its own.
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Concept 3
After: crs-and-alignment
The visible basemap is only a backdrop. The useful context is queryable geometry with names, types and other attributes attached.
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Concept 4
After: crs-and-alignment
A scanned survey becomes evidence only after its known points agree with the same coordinate framework as the surrounding context.
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Concept 5
After: open-context-data, georeference-site-material
Open data rarely contains the site-specific wall, drain, tree line or access point you actually need. Those observations need their own controlled layer.
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Concept 6
After: crs-and-alignment, open-context-data
Contours are not lines to decorate a base drawing. They are one reading of an elevation surface that can also reveal steepness and landform.
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Concept 7
After: open-context-data, digitise-existing-conditions
Near, accessible and affected are not visual impressions. Each becomes defensible only when the feature, distance and unit are explicit.
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Concept 8
After: digitise-existing-conditions, terrain-from-dem, proximity-and-access
Flood exposure, steep ground, setbacks and protected features matter only where they actually overlap the project boundary.
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Concept 9
After: clip-and-intersect-constraints
An opportunity map is an argument made from explicit criteria, not a final design and not an objective answer hidden inside coloured pixels.
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Concept 10
After: digitise-existing-conditions, suitability-and-opportunity
The analysis has to cross into the drawing workflow without becoming a screenshot or losing the coordinates and layer structure that made it useful.
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Concept 11
After: suitability-and-opportunity
The final map must let another person see the result, read the scale and legend, and trace what data or assumption produced it.
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